{"id":397,"date":"2009-08-26T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cosaint.net\/?p=397"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:43:29","slug":"hipaa-hitech-breach-notification-applies-to-deceased-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/hipaa-hitech-breach-notification-applies-to-deceased-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"HIPAA \/HITECH Breach Notification Applies to Deceased Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-597\" title=\"medicalrecords\" src=\"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/medicalrecords1.gif\" alt=\"medicalrecords\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/medicalrecords1.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/medicalrecords1-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>In her IT Compliance blog, Rebecca Herold <a href=\"http:\/\/privacyguidance.com\/blog\/hipaahitech-breach-notice-rule-applies-to-phi-of-deceased-individuals-training-a-key-element\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted an article<\/a> about the implications of the FTC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/enforcement\/rules\/rulemaking-regulatory-reform-proceedings\/health-breach-notification-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Health Breach Notification Rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, it&#8217;s probably going to take a while for the dust to settle so that we can understand the full implications of the rule. But Rebecca noted one fascinating aspect &#8211; security breaches involving the Personal Health Information of individuals that the organization knows to be deceased must be notified to the deceased&#8217;s next of kin or personal representative.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve come across a requirement like this before, and it&#8217;s not clear what implications this will have for record retention policies and associated training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her IT Compliance blog, Rebecca Herold posted an article about the implications of the FTC&#8217;s Health Breach Notification Rule. As usual, it&#8217;s probably going to take a while for the dust to settle so that we can understand the full implications of the rule. But Rebecca noted one fascinating aspect &#8211; security breaches involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}